At the rate that the Trump administration is alienating America’s friends and comforting its enemies, Russians may soon be triumphantly celebrating VA Day — Victory Over America Day — with vodka toasts, fireworks and cannon salutes.

Moscow will be plastered with giant posters of a smirking Russian President Vladimir Putin. Video projections on the Kremlin walls will play endless loops of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s humiliating Oval Office meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance. That meeting reminded Lech Walesa, the Solidarity movement leader who helped free Poland from Soviet control, and other former Polish political prisoners, of their “interrogations by the Security Service” in the Communist era.

Victory Over America Day will not simply celebrate a victory over Ukraine — which Trump appears to be handing Putin on a silver platter by suspending military aid and intelligence sharing — but the break-up of NATO and the retreat of the U.S. from Europe.

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